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Monthly Archives: February 2016

Kandy – Nandasenda accepts the challenge

ThanksGo to the first post for Kandy Feeling utterly relaxed, Weernsinghe drove me up the road for the final hour or two to Kandy.  Kandy felt so familiar to me but instead of going directly to the hotel…

Source: Kandy – Nandasenda accepts the challenge

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Posted on February 29, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Kandy – Meal, Massage and Hell

I had time for a quick dip in the pool and then I waited for Premadasa to arrive in the hotel lobby.  He came in beaming and I got back on pillion style to ride with him to his house.  We bought so…

Source: Kandy – Meal, Massage and Hell

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Posted on February 28, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Kandy – Premadasa and Polonnaruwa

Premadasa took me on his little motorbike.  Up to that stage I think I had ridden pillion on a bike twice in my life with two people I trusted enormously, on the relatively smooth streets of Medway…

Source: Kandy – Premadasa and Polonnaruwa

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Posted on February 27, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Kandy – Into the Lion’s Mouth

I spent an eventless evening in the hotel eating the international style buffet and listening to the sanitised entertainment.  I woke early next morning to get a head start on most of the tourists …

Source: Kandy – Into the Lion’s Mouth

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Posted on February 26, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Kandy – Climbing up to Dambulla

Source: Kandy – Climbing up to Dambulla

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Posted on February 24, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Pause! !

Having to pause the postings as helping out in fiji after cyclone Winston passed through

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Posted on February 23, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Kandy – The Golden Triangle – Road to Dambulla

Source: Kandy – The Golden Triangle – Road to Dambulla

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Posted on February 20, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Kandy – the view from a distance.

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Posted on February 20, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Kandy – Up in to the hills

Source: Kandy – Up in to the hills

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Posted on February 19, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Kandy – Peredeniya Botanical Gardens

Source: Kandy – Peredeniya Botanical Gardens

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Posted on February 18, 2016 by Alan Mills. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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